On appropriate things to tell people as an ice breaker

[palominocorn]

My first memory is actually of my mother upending a bowl of hot soup onto my head because I refused to eat it.

But when people ask about my earliest memory, I generally tell them that it was walking through the city at night and seeing snow falling in front of the lamppost.

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[codex8]

I feel like a lot of common icebreakers have this sort of effect on me and it can be vindictively satisfying if I'm in a bad mood to answer honestly.

My favorite "innocent icebreaker that I have an extremely uncomfortable answer to" is "how many siblings do you have?"